Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth we call it Love.

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.